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...Phantom Troubadour...
...ripe old age of 44, Air Force Colonel Robin Olds really should not be flying anything hotter than Charlie Brown's kite, but with four kills in his F-4C Phantom, he is the leading combat pilot of the Viet Nam air war (TIME, June 2). Now the Air Force has finally found a way to keep him down on the ground with the other old folks. The 1943 West Point graduate and World War II ace (twelve German planes) has been named commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, effective...
Between raids north, James strafed ghetto rioters. "I'm not a nonviolent man," averred the massive (6 ft. 4 in., 230 Ibs.) ex-footballer, who has to be shoehorned into the cockpit of his F-4 Phantom jet. "I'm a fighter. But I respect the law of the country. The trouble with burning down your homes is that you can't really be free without a place to be free...
...Viet Nam remain untouched, U.S. bombs rained down last week on a hitherto inviolate target: the one-mile Long Bien Bridge. Less than two miles from downtown Hanoi, the French-built bridge carries all the rail and road traffic between the North Vietnamese capital and China. U.S. Thunderchief and Phantom fighter-bombers scored four direct hits on the steel structure, sent a 300-ft. center span-splashing into the Red River. Elsewhere over the North, Air Force fighter-bombers pounded rail yards, and Navy pilots shot down...
...Phantom Troops. The increase comes at a time when the South Vietnamese army is in transition, gradually shifting half its units from search-and-destroy operations-some quite desultory-to providing security for villagers and government pacification teams. Some 17,000 of the new soldiers, gathered by conscription, will go into the Popular Forces-the 171,000 militiamen who now defend the villages and hamlets. Another 33,000 will join the 142,000-man Regional Forces, which are roughly similar in structure to the U.S. National Guard. About 30,000 are destined for duty in the 285,000-man regular...